Business Acquisition
Find, analyze, finance, and acquire cash-flowing businesses.
Move deals through the process
Drag a business onto a stage, or change the stage from the deal page.
Your acquisition targets
Start with a listing you're curious about. Athena will calculate the multiples, debt-service math, and an analytical acquisition score.
Active analysis & diligence
No businesses in analysis, diligence, or financing yet.
Deals on the table
No offers or letters of intent in progress.
Verification progress
Financial, legal, operational, and market checklists per business.
Analyze a business to open its due-diligence center.
Structures you're modeling
Educational scenarios only — no financing or SBA approval is guaranteed.
Add a business to model traditional, seller-financed, SBA-style, and combination structures.
Every deal's estimated math, side by side
Calculated from figures you entered. Estimates, not verified financials.
Analyze a business to see multiples, debt service, DSCR, payback, and ROI estimates.
Sixteen steps from target to transition
Open a business to track your progress through each step.
- 1Identify target
- 2Initial screening
- 3Analyze financials
- 4Estimate valuation
- 5Determine financing requirements
- 6Contact seller/broker
- 7Request financial documents
- 8Complete due diligence
- 9Build financing structure
- 10Submit LOI
- 11Negotiate purchase agreement
- 12Secure financing
- 13Finalize legal documentation
- 14Close transaction
- 15Transition ownership
- 16Monitor post-acquisition performance
Ask about any deal you've saved
Athena labels verified information, information you provided, calculated estimates, assumptions, and AI analysis separately — and never claims an acquisition is guaranteed to succeed.
Prefer an adversarial review? Run the deal through Athena's Decision Guard and let her try to prove the deal wrong.
All figures are estimates calculated from information you entered. They are not verified financials and are not financial, legal, tax, lending, or investment advice. Nothing here guarantees financing, SBA approval, profitability, or returns. For legal documents, tax questions, securities questions, lending decisions, and transaction documents, work with a licensed attorney, CPA, or lender.